Netanyahu Corruption Investigations Are Complete, According To Police
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The police have completed three corruption investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit likely will make a decision on whether to indict Netanyahu in one or all of the cases in the first four months of 2019, Hadashot news reported Wednesday.
The timetable for the recommendations “will surprise everyone,” an unnamed source in the prosecutors’ office told Hadashot. The investigations took some 2 and a half years.
Netanyahu has been questioned 12 times in cases 1000, 2000, and 4000, which allege receiving gifts and benefits in exchange for political favors. Netanyahu denies the allegations.
Police recommended earlier this year that Netanyahu be indicted in cases 1000 and 2000.
With the conclusion of the investigations, investigators will write up their findings and a recommendation. They also will revisit cases 1000 and 2000 since they were reopened for a new state’s witness.
Alyssa Fisher is a news writer at the Forward. Email her at fisher@forward.com, or follow her on Twitter at @alyssalfisher
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
